What could be more elegant than a retrograde display on a fine watchmaking piece?
But what is it exactly?
From an aesthete's pleasure coupled with a small technical feat: rolling back time on a dial to better make it go forward.
For a moment, a hand is at the right end of the dial;
the next, in just a few thousandths of a second, she seems to have teleported away, before resuming her hypnotic back and forth.
We therefore speak of a so-called retrograde display when the indicator does not make a complete turn of the dial, but returns to its starting point.
Most of these types of display apply to cyclical time indications (hours, minutes, seconds, days and dates) displayed for the occasion in an arc of a circle flown over by a hand.
The traditional Tourbillon date retrograde openface.
Vacheron Constantin
If this mechanism requires great precision and requires rigor, especially for resistance to shocks and wear, this does not prevent us from also being able to treat the subject with humor and elegance...
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